4th Screen Awards

The 4th Screen Awards also The fourth Annual Screen–Videocon Awards ceremony, presented by Indian Express Group, honoured the best Indian Hindi-language films of 1997. The ceremony was held on 17 January 1998 at Andheri Sports Complex, Mumbai, hosted by Jaaved Jaaferi and co-hosted by Achala Sachdev.^[1]

4th Screen Awards
Date	17 January 1998
Site	Andheri Sports Complex, Mumbai
Hosted by	Jaaved Jaaferi
Highlights
Best Picture	Border
Best Direction	J. P. Dutta (Border)
Best Actor	Anil Kapoor (Virasat)
Best Actress	Madhuri Dixit (Mrityudand)
Most awards	Border (7)
Most nominations	Virasat (15)
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Virasat led the ceremony with 15 nominations, followed by Border with 11 nominations, Pardes with 9 nominations and Dil To Pagal Hai with 8 nominations.

Border won 7 awards, including Best Film and Best Director (for J. P. Dutta), thus becoming the most-awarded film at the ceremony.

Awards

J. P. Dutta — Best Director for Border

Anil Kapoor — Best Actor for Virasat

Madhuri Dixit — Best Actress for Mrityudand

Amrish Puri — Best Supporting Actor for Virasat

Shabana Azmi — Best Supporting Actress for Mrityudand

The winners and nominees have been listed below. Winners are listed first, highlighted in boldface, and indicated with a double dagger (‡).^[2][3][4][5]

Jury Awards

Best Film	Best Director
Border‡ Chachi 420 Mrityudand Pardes Virasat	J. P. Dutta – Border‡ Kamal Haasan – Chachi 420 Prakash Jha – Mrityudand Priyadarshan – Virasat Subhash Ghai – Pardes
Best Actor	Best Actress
Anil Kapoor – Virasat‡ Aamir Khan – Ishq Govinda – Deewana Mastana Kamal Haasan – Chachi 420 Shah Rukh Khan – Dil To Pagal Hai	Madhuri Dixit – Mrityudand‡ Juhi Chawla – Yes Boss Rekha – Aastha: In the Prison of Spring Sridevi – Judaai Tabu – Virasat
Best Supporting Actor	Best Supporting Actress
Amrish Puri – Virasat‡ Om Puri – Gupt: The Hidden Truth Paresh Rawal – Chachi 420 Sayaji Shinde – Darmiyaan: In Between Shivaji Satam – Ghulam-E-Mustafa	Shabana Azmi – Mrityudand‡ Aruna Irani – Ghulam-E-Mustafa Karisma Kapoor – Dil To Pagal Hai Pooja Batra – Virasat Smriti Mishra – Sardari Begum
Most Promising Newcomer – Male	Most Promising Newcomer – Female
Akshaye Khanna – Himalay Putra‡ Apurva Agnihotri – Pardes Arif Zakaria – Darmiyaan: In Between	Aishwarya Rai – Aur Pyaar Ho Gaya‡ Mahima Chaudhry – Pardes Pooja Batra – Virasat
Best Actor in a Negative Role	Best Background Music
Mohan Joshi – Mrityudand‡ Deepa Sahi – Aar Ya Paar Jackie Shroff – Aar Ya Paar Milind Gunaji – Virasat Mohan Joshi – Yeshwant	Aadesh Shrivastava – Border‡
Best Music Director	Best Lyricist
Nadeem–Shravan – Pardes‡ Anu Malik – Border Anu Malik – Virasat Jatin–Lalit – Yes Boss Uttam Singh – Dil To Pagal Hai	Javed Akhtar – "Sandese Aate Hai" – Border‡ Anand Bakshi – "Do Dil Mil Rahe Hain" – Pardes Anand Bakshi – "I Love My India" – Pardes Gulzar – "Labon Se Chumlo" – Aastha: In the Prison of Spring Javed Akhtar – "Main Koi Aisa Geet Gaoon" – Yes Boss
Best Male Playback Singer	Best Female Playback Singer
Abhijeet Bhattacharya – "Main Koi Aisa Geet Gaoon" – Yes Boss‡ Hariharan – "Hum Tumse Na Kuchh" – Ziddi Kumar Sanu – "Do Dil Mil Rahe Hain" – Pardes Roopkumar Rathod, Sonu Nigam – "Sandese Aate Hai" – Border Udit Narayan – "Dil To Pagal Hai" – Dil To Pagal Hai	K. S. Chithra – "Payalay Chunmun" – Virasat‡ Alka Yagnik – "Tanhai Tanhai" – Koyla Asha Bhosle – "Le Gayi" – Dil To Pagal Hai Kavita Krishnamurti – "Mr. Lova Lova" (Ankhiyaan Tu Mila Le) – Ishq Shweta Shetty – "Kaale Kaale Baal" – Ziddi

Technical Awards

Best Story	Best Screenplay
Kamal Haasan – Virasat‡ J. P. Dutta – Border Sahiwal – Mrityudand	J. P. Dutta – Border‡ Anil Ajitabh, Prakash Jha, Rajan Kothari – Mrityudand Kamal Haasan – Virasat
Best Dialogue	Best Cinematography
Hriday Lani – Yeshwant‡ O. P. Dutta – Border Sanjay Chhel – Yes Boss	Kabir Lal – Pardes‡ Manmohan Singh – Dil To Pagal Hai Ravi K. Chandran – Virasat
Best Editing	Best Production Design
M. Gopala Krishana – Virasat‡	Sharmishta Roy – Dil To Pagal Hai‡
Best Choreography	Best Action
Shiamak Davar – Dil To Pagal Hai‡	Biku Verma, Tinu Verma – Border‡
Best Audio-graph-er	Best Re-recording
Deepan Chatterji – Virasat‡	Suresh Kathena – Border‡

Special awards

Lifetime Achievement Award
Suraiya
Special Jury Award
Govinda
Ramnath Goenka Award
Dilip Kumar

Superlatives

Multiple nominations

Nominations	Film
15	Virasat
11	Border
9	Pardes
8	Dil To Pagal Hai
7	Mrityudand
5	Yes Boss
4	Chachi 420
2	Aar Ya Paar
	Aastha: In the Prison of Spring
	Darmiyaan: In Between
	Ghulam-E-Mustafa
	Ishq
	Yeshwant
	Ziddi

Multiple wins

Awards	Film
7	Border
6	Virasat
3	Mrityudand
2	Dil To Pagal Hai
	Pardes